KepCurve: A Kepler Light Curve Tool

Installation

PLEASE UNINSTALL ANY PREVIOUS VERSION. I've changed installers again and now use InstallShield.
This has allowed me to correctly bundle the Limb Darkening coefficients and to fix the file associations. However, it
does mean you will have manually download updates.

Download and run Setup.exe. The usual Windows instructions apply.

The first time it is run, it will prompt you for the FTP details. Normally the only one you need to change will be the FTP password.
If you are using anonymous access, supply your email address. If you have a guest observer username and password, you will need to enter both.
Note: if you need to change these in the future, use the Tools >> Options menu item.

Starting a New Project

Initiate your download request at MAST

When you get successful confirmation, click the "New" button or select "New" in the file menu

Enter a project name (I usually use "KID" + the number)

Check "Download files" (if you want to start the project again from scratch, unchecking this will use whatever FITS files are in the project directory)

Enter the last part of the directory name (e.g. "anonymous07324") into the Sub-directory box

Click through the rest of the wizard.

When new data is released, an existing project can be updated using the "Update Data" option in the "File" menu. This option will download any new curves from the specified directory,
will delete any existing merged curves, but will retain all data about transits, etc.

Overall Flow of a Project

Generally, a project characterising planets proceeds roughly as:

Create the project and download the files

Create a merged curve containing all quarters

Mark the first and last transit

From the start time of these and the number of transits, compute the period (Note: see new controls on "Planets" tab)

A Revised Effective Temperature Scale for the Kepler Input Catalogue, Pinsonneault et al (2012). [PDF from arxiv.org].
Used for estimation from SDSS griz band magnitudes.

It then computes the class, mass, radius and log(g) from the data here.
If the FITS files from MAST do not include all the mass, radius, log(g) and metallicity data, the values compute above are used (a metallicity of -0.2 is assumed)

Planned Changes

Below is a list of things I'd like to do. I make no promises about when or which order they will be implemented!

Measurement tools. In particular, a special ruler with a label indicating the difference (in time) between the two vertical rulers